Question: if energy cannot be created or destroyed where does the energy go from your body when you die?

Andrew Swale answered on 22 Jun 2013:

This is the subject to much debate. One interesting take on it from a physicist is as follows: –

“Death is more of a break-down of the whole system, as opposed to a sudden event. The heart stops doing whatever hearts do when they’re not loving, oxygen and nutrients stop going where they’re needed, and in short order the nerve cells in the body lose the wherewithal to pump ions. Like batteries that are no longer being recharged, they run down. Nothing special. Like every kind of energy, whether electrical, kinetic, sonic, or sports fever, the electrical potential in the body eventually becomes heat energy (it’s an entropy thing)”